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Publisher's Intro'
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Peter Anny-Nzekwue:
In June 2008, in issue 17 of Xclusive Magazine, we profiled 50 Most Outstanding Africans in Ireland, the who-is-who.
We are the first Ireland's African magazine to do...Read
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| Xclusive Interview
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LIRA is set to conquer America
Interview with multi-platinium selling South African Singer and Songwriter on family life, the essence of
her music, and her new challenge...Read
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| Xclusive Feature
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Miss Ethnic Ireland 2012:
to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and to celebrate
the (FGM) Bill passed through the Seanad Ιireann (Irish Senate). Read
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| Xclusive Who-is-Who
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Ireland's African Super Powers:
There are only three categories of Ireland's African people who matter: the very powerful,
the most influential and the big deals! And here is our list! Read
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| Queen Monika Klinaviciute
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Queen Monika Klinaviciute:
the gorgeous Lithuanian born Miss Ethnic Ireland 2012 tells us how she would use her Crown to fight for the
Rights of women, particularly young Women.
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Columnists ...the best team on paper |
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Esse Agesse
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Fr. Shay Cullen
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Godi Aniuzu
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| The Mirror Boy Dublin Premiere: event photos,
plus interview with Obi Emelonye, The writer, director and marketer of The Mirror Boy and a brief chat with Edward Kagutuzi,
the lead actor.
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The Mirror Boy is great. What's the inspiration behind the film?
The Mirror Boy has been six years in the making.
I wrote the script in 2005 and since then it has gone through series of metamorphosis until it gets to this film stage.
The initial idea came from my trying to make a film that would be looking at the story from the point of view of a younger
person. In Nollywood, most films have an adult perspective. I wanted to look at issues from the angle of a younger person,
in this case, from the angle of a London born and bred African who is taken to Africa for the first time. That's one of
the thinking behind it. The second one was, watching my son who is eight, grappling with his dual nationality: at school
he's a British boy; at home he's a Nigerian. I try to tell a story of coming of age, of flight of passage of a young
person looking at concept of identity crisis that most children born in the Diaspora suffer, the disconnect between
Diasporic children and some people that are born in Africa and the people in Africa themselves. So the Mirror Boy
is a way of telling the people to look in the mirror and not be afraid of whom they see. So that's ...
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| Edward Kagutuzi - A brief chat with Edward Kagutuzi,
the lead actor.
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You were very fantastic in the Mirror Boy. Have you been acting before you got the
role in this film?
I have done some film productions in London. I have also don some commercials for FIFA. Yes, I have been acting before
I got the role in the Mirror Boy.
When you got the script, how did you relate with it?
I could relate to a lot of things going on in the film like being sent home from school for having a fight.
Can we then say that there is a relationship between Edward and the character, Tijan. What are the similarities and differences in both characters?
For similarities, we are both born in Britain which could have been different mentality if one of the two people was born in Africa.
The difference is that I was not sent back to African, but I still find myself. Tijan finds himself as he goes through his journey in Africa...
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